A HORRIFIED mum thought her husband had died at the wheel moments before their car hit a building.

Kenneth Robson was driving the family’s red Mazda when he blacked out and lost control of the vehicle.

The Mazda 323 ploughed through a hedge and hit the wall of the Erimus housing office in Berwick Hills, Middlesbrough. Inside the vehicle at the time were Mr Robson, 45, his wife Janet, 38, and their children Darryl, 14, and Matthew, three.

They had just turned into Crossfell Road from Ormesby Road when it happened.

Janet, of Langridge Crescent, Berwick Hills, said her husband suddenly said “Oh my God”. “As I looked at him he just seemed to slump forward. I honestly thought he was dead, I really did,” she said.

The car then went into the side of the Erimus housing office. “We went through the hedge and hit the wall. The bushes slowed us down,” she said.

“It was horrifying. You see these things happening on the telly, you don’t see it happening to yourself.

“I got out of the car through the sun roof.”

Mr Robson was taken to James Cook University Hospital. Mrs Robson said: “They said they don’t know whether or not he has had a seizure.”

He was allowed home but his wife said he was “very groggy” last night. She said: “The eldest son has got chest pains because of the seatbelt. They checked the baby over and he is fine. We have been very lucky.”